Wind chimes are on display as a shopper looks at items in the background during the Sept. 13 grand opening of Cost Plus Work Market in Front Range Village in Fort Collins.

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Heading into the all-important holiday season, Fort Collins shoppers show no sign of pulling back on spending.

Sales on which residents paid sales taxes in August - taxes that were collected in September - were up 4.3 percent from the prior year, according to the city's sales and use tax report released Wednesday.

The results include back-to-school shopping, which helped boost sales at general merchandise stores such as Walmart, Target and Kmart and at specialized clothing stores. It also continued an upward trend in sales that began to rebound more than a year ago. ...